Hume argues that our concept of the self is a result of our natural habit of attributing unified existence to any collection of associated parts. This belief is natural, but there is no logical support for it.

phenomenology of perception can be considered as a further development of. this analysis of embodied existence. To be embodied means to situate one- self in a specific environment, to engage in a particular situation.

For him, perception was the source of knowledge and had to be studied before the conventional sciences.

Descartes’s concept of the self revolves around the idea of mind-body dualism. For Descartes, a human person is composed of two parts, namely, a material body and a non-material mind. In other words, for Descartes, it is the mind that makes us humans. Thus, for Descartes, the “mind” is the “real self”.

Churchland is a major proponent of eliminative materialism: the view that because the mind and brain are identical, we should eliminate the folk-psychological language (i.e., “mind” talk) from our vocabulary and replace it with a new scientific/neurophysiological one.

Traditionally, scientists have tried to define the mind as the product of brain activity: The brain is the physical substance, and the mind is the conscious product of those firing neurons, according to the classic argument. But growing evidence shows that the mind goes far beyond the physical workings of your brain.

When two people experience a deep connection, they’re informally described as being on the same wavelength. There may be neurological truth to that. Brain scans of a speaker and listener showed their neural activity synchronizing during storytelling.

Thoughts are things. They are powerful. They are preemptive. The very thoughts running through your mind can help to manifest the life of your dreams, or draw you closer to your greatest fears.

Our problems are nothing more than our emotional and body reactions to our thoughts about the problem. So if we can observe and change our attention or perception, we can change our emotional reaction, which then changes our body reaction, which ultimately changes how we act and experience our reality.

Negative attitudes and feelings of helplessness and hopelessness can create chronic stress, which upsets the body’s hormone balance, depletes the brain chemicals required for happiness, and damages the immune system. Chronic stress can actually decrease our lifespan.

There aren’t any obvious analogies between the functioning of quantum computers and the human brain. Some hypothetical models of quantum mind have proposed mechanisms for maintaining quantum coherence in the brain, but they have not been shown to operate.

I’m sure you’ve heard the saying, “Perception is reality.” This is saying that you have a mental impression of something, and it defines how you see that something, regardless of the truth.

Lee Atwater

Reality: The state of things as they are or appear to be, rather than as one might wish them to be. In other words, perception is defined what we are seeing and reality is defined as what is happening. How well our perception matches that of reality is often referred to as situational awareness.